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I’m trying to steer clear of bring more gig posters into our apartment, and while searching through Livingetc.com, I came across this: I’m now totally obsessed with book posters.This is one of my favorites: Tweet

When yo mamma sits around the house, she sits AROUND THE HOUSE But books Tweet

I really love how this is ultra modern but still looks very Eames-era. from this place Tweet

Pre-coffee this morning, I’m checkin’ my email doing my morning warm-up.. Perez, Facebook, etc. etc… until: “You have sent 291 invitations to GoodReads!” Fuck! Cancelcancelcancel. Seriously, If you use this site you can see how it was possible for me to have sent an invitation out to everyone in my Gmail contacts .. but, just [...]

Literary sex scenes taking place in libraries! Thanks L Magazine. Sorry if this is explicit.. but I think it’s kind of great (nerdy and sexy!) and the library make-out is totally the best part of Atonement. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPca-YKsT1w] Tweet

My posting hiatus has ended because this book is so good.  A recommendation from Steph, I can’t put it down, and will probably buy it for everyone I know this Christmas.  Just check out Miranda July’s website for the book because if I didn’t sell you on it yet, this will.   Just go buy it, [...]

This is the cover for the new edition of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction that will be a part of Penguin’s Great Ideas series: The essay is also great. If you are looking for a great piece of cultural criticism, you can read the entire essay on marxists.org. [...]

ps.. I found this by doing a Google image search for “Really old torah.” Tweet

I think I could read this book, and not just actually skim the pages. Brooklyn Modern’s website claims that it’s “the first book to explore the connection between Brooklyn’s astounding rebirth and its emerging architecture.” Oh yeah? Well so is your face. Ha. Tweet

Full article  here , from NYT:  Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from a friend. She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and was desperate to justify her decision. “Can you believe it!” she shouted into the phone. “He hadn’t even heard of Pushkin!” We’ve [...]